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Thinking of you brother. Looking forward to 2019, and hoping it brings you all the best.
- Sabertooth and Justin
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50 minutes ago, Justin said:
Great update. It’s nice to have these “Secret Session” vlogs talking to us in the forums one-on-one about your project and what you’ve got going on. Helpful to see what you’re trying to accomplish.
Yeah its pretty cool. As you can see I’m very close, excited to get it all buttoned up. Jonnsing to play some Super Breakout.
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2 hours ago, RickR said:
To get the right ROM sets, you may end up going into the shadowy "torrent" zone of the internet. As mentioned in my comment above, MAME is probably the trickiest thing to get set up properly. Once you do....back it up! I can't stress that enough. Because it will get goofed up. Someone will push the wrong combination of buttons to goof it. Trust me. Uncle Joe, cousin Philomena....someone you least expect.
As for Stella vs. IR-Stella, I think they both come built-in. I think there is a way to tell the Retropie system which one to use. I'll have to see if I can find docs for that.
Awesome advice Rick. Back up for sure and if you can get me the information on the dueling Stellas that would be perfect. I will be doing a video of my progress today, so I can share with you all how far I’ve come.
Thanks again
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Alright gang - guess what? It worked... kind of. So I have the spinners working BUT only on games that are running out of MAME 2003 and 2010. I have a bunch of other games that are running through Final Burn Alpha - which does NOT support the spinners.
On another note I have a bunch of Atari 2600 paddle games I want to play but here is another problem. Apparently ther are two Atari emulators in Retropie. One is Stella and the other is IR Stella. I have a full set of IR Stella, and thats cool... BUT it does not support a mouse. If i had just regular Stella it would be no problem, which I don’t.
So now I need to figure out how to load in new ROMs for Only mame and then figure out how to load regular Stella... I’m very close thank to you super sleuths. Thanks for the help, now hoping you can give me some more advice on loading up the few loose ends.
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On 12/12/2018 at 3:16 AM, kamakazi20012 said:
I'm unfamiliar with a retropie. But I'm trying to read anything to see if I can help anyway I can.
I don't know what version of MAME you are running but I found some info on MAME 2003. Maybe it will help because I don't know if you have tried this or not.
Pointer/Trackpad/Touchscreen support¶
Absolute pointer devices are supported, but need to be turned on via a setting in the retroarch-core-options.cfg file.
mame2003-mouse_device = "pointer"
2 player dial/spinner devices¶
2 player spinner/dial devices can be represented as 1 device with 2 axes. mame2003 can be configured to share this device across both players: Player 1 = X axis, Player 2 = Y axis. This can be enabled via a setting in the retroarch-core-options.cfg file, found in:
mame2003-dialsharexy = "enabled" NOTE: This will disable Mouse support.
Are you using two spinners?
I will try using Pointer instead of "mouse"
I have a turbo twist 2 and the way it works is player one is X and player two is Y
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On 12/10/2018 at 7:02 AM, Kid A said:
Sorry for the delay for my wish list. Been super busy with work and an birthdays in the family.
Here's what I would enjoy!
Legend of Zelda collectables. Anything should be good. If I get doubles, like figurines and such, I keep one sealed, and open the other to display.
Atari related shirts. Size XL.Dark colors preferred. I don't have anything like this so don't worry about buying something I already have.
Atari 2600 games, NES, or SNES games that are fun that I don't have on this list...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O9alTUHgcwIPAh_7vNuZVnnkZCbkywzffQQktRnrWMM/edit?usp=drivesdk
There's a couple ideas
Merry Christmas Kid A! Be looking in the mail for your card and I hope to see you in Pixel Vault Games soon!
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On 12/9/2018 at 9:49 PM, kamakazi20012 said:
See if there is anything here that might be of some assistance.
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices/
Whoops! Forgot to add that the spinner section is close to the bottom of the page.
Yes Ive seen this and will try it again. If it still wont work, not sure what is the next step. Hell I'll even ship it out if someone has an answer.
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On 12/5/2018 at 4:50 PM, RickR said:
Have you checked out this documentation?
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices/
Yes, gonna try again and see if I can get anything worked out.
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3 hours ago, Justin said:
Does anyone have a similar controller they could loan Rick?
3 hours ago, RickR said:i am happy to try and help. I don't have any kind of twisty knob controller to test with, though. There is a Facebook group for retropi, and you may have good luck asking for help from those experts. Look for groups named "Retropie Makers" and "RetroPie".
This is fixable. I just wish I had a similar controller so I could start experimenting and testing.Its the mouse input. Basically The turbo twist is a mouse input. One knob is the X axis and the other is the Y. Its registered as a mouse. If I can get Retro Arch, Mame and Atari 2600 to recognize a mouse Im in business. I'd ship it out if anyone can help. How ever I can't ship the Turbo twist - just note it's only a mouse.
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59 minutes ago, Justin said:
That wasn't a good time for us in Detroit.
BTB, when you made the decision to switch things up and move to Retro Pie did you see anything out there with spinner controllers already working? I see so many Raspberry Pi consoles out there but I'm not very familiar with them, I can't imagine you're the first person to use spinners on a Retro Pi. I wonder if the manufacturer of the spinners could give you any advice?
Yes I did. How ever what it seams like to me - being a novice on the Retro Pie, it's almost like its built on a few different layers, and I have to write some code on a text doc. That being said it seams like Im doing something wrong, or the build I have is not setup for it.
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Reaching out to the community here for some help. Im trying to get my Pong Cabinet in a perfect state - right now its not. Imagine a beautiful sports car with a Pinto engine. Im not happy with my Mame set up, so I switched to a retro pie - thats not perfect either because I cant get the turbo twits to work, the whole point of the cabinet.
Can anyone help me with either getting a solid Mame interface - thats guest friendly (meaning I don't have to babysit the cabinet) when people are over.
Or get my Retro Pie to read the turbo twist working.
Im hoping the Atari.io McPeeps can help me out.
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On 6/12/2018 at 3:33 PM, RickR said:
I wanted to share my experience here in creating a RetroPie machine.
What is it?
It's an emulation station created using a Raspberry Pi and an image called "RetroPie". It emulates a ton of different systems. I'm mostly interested in 2600, Vectrex, Lynx, MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis, and N64.
It was really the SNES Classic that got me really interested in trying this. I play that one a lot, and it works well. It's small enough to take to friends' houses or parties. And it just plain works. I figured a system that could do even more systems would be even better.
I've tried this before. A few years ago, I used a Rasp Pi version 1 and an old iCade to make a small "arcade" machine. It worked pretty well, but was pretty limited. That version of Raspberry Pi maxed out at the NES level. SNES games were very choppy. Older arcade games were fine, but anything beyond 1983 or so was choppy.
I also ended up never getting that little arcade machine out. It was too cumbersome. So I decided to just create a new machine with just the Pi itself connected to our family room TV using DVI cable. The newest version of Pi has BlueTooth built in, meaning you can use a wireless PS3, PS4, etc controller with it.
So here's what I bought:
- A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B from Target (yes, they sell them at Target!) Price was $33.25 if you use their Red Card.
- A 32 GB micro SD card ($20 from Office Depot).
- I also bought a cheapo case on eBay, but it has not arrived yet.
Setup was very simple. You have to have a keyboard for initial setup. But it's not needed after that. I'm also using a wired generic PC gamepad for now. It works nicely.
So far, the games I've tried all work fine. 2600 games, for example, are emulated using "Stella". That works great. NES and SNES are both perfect. I have a lot more to try and play with.
The UI is pretty nice. Not as nice as the SNES Classic. But nice enough. I really like how the UI is consistent for all emulation. The same hot-keys to save or exit work for all the different emulators.
Suggestions:
- There's a newer model (3 Model B+) available that offers even better performance. But it isn't available at Target yet. If may be worth tracking that one down on-line.
- Some people go wild with some wild designs on these. Full-sized arcade machines, mini bar machines, etc, etc. I think those are really cool, but I don't have the time, space, or patience to do that yet.
- It's a lot easier than I thought it would be to get this up and working. Lots of help available on-line.
Rick I need some help getting my turbo twist to be recognized. Im having trouble getting my "mouse" function to work, so Ive got no control with the turbo twist. I would love some help with this. let me know.
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2 hours ago, Atari Creep said:
Such a beautiful machine, sorry to hear it is not going too well. I will ask around and if anyone responds I will send them your way or send you their way. Either way it should be ALL of our missions to make sure this thing is a go!!!!
Not that it's not going too well - It just needs to be perfect, and easy for my guests to use.
- Atari Creep and Justin
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Trying to rack my brain on what I could possibly need. The one thing that come to mind is my pong cabinet is not perfect, and I’d like to fix that. The micro computer I was using as the MAME interface was not stable - not good for guests to navigate around. I switched over to a retro pie and I can’t get the dang thing to recognize my spinners. Im at a loss and would love some help trying to get the perfect set up dialed in.
- Justin and Atari Creep
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Always love this time of year, count me in!
- Justin, RickR and Atari Creep
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I came across a company called Bradbury Barrel (http://www.bradburybarrel.com/). In the 'displays' section, at the bottom of the page, is the 'space saver wine merchant' which has a notched barrel mounted on top of a small cabinet. So I emailed them for a quote. $379. Maybe if it was full of wine... which it isn't.
See what Im saying - too expensive. I the one I found was about $150 on ebay.
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At the moment of filming I was using Mame, Ill have to double check what version. How ever Pong was sketchy on it, it worked but not as good as I would have liked. I’m trying a RetroPie as well so I will let you know how that works once its up and running.Nice job with this, Brian. What software are you using to emulate Pong?
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Played on a 7800 with the Euro pad
- Justin and Atari Creep
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I finally got a TG-16!
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Multi tap... I know.